In 1993, Samuel P. Huntington, a counter-insurgency expert in Viet Nam under the Johnson administration and later director of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard, published an article that was the forerunner to his now famous book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996; published in French as Le choc des civilisations, Odile Jacob, 1997).
En 1993, S. Huntington, que había sido experto en la lucha contra la insurrección del Gobierno de Lyndon Johnson en Viet Nam, y luego Director del Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos de Harvard, publicó su obra ahora célebre "El choque de civilizaciones" (The Clash of Civilizations, ed.